⁵⁶ for a destroyer has come against her,
    against Babylon;
her warriors are taken;
    their bows are broken,
for the Lord is a God of recompense;
    he will repay in full.^(A)

⁸ Because you have plundered many nations,
    all who survive of the peoples shall plunder you—
because of human bloodshed and violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who live in them.^(A)

⁴⁸ Then the heavens and the earth
    and all that is in them
shall shout for joy over Babylon,
    for the destroyers shall come against her out of the north,
            says the Lord.^(A)

¹ O Lord, you God of vengeance,
    you God of vengeance, shine forth!^(A)
2 Rise up, O judge of the earth;
    give to the proud what they deserve!^(B)

⁹ He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
    he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
    he burns the shields with fire.^(A)

¹⁸ According to their deeds, so will he repay
    wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies;
    to the coastlands he will render requital.^(A)

³ There he broke the flashing arrows,
    the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah^(A)